A man opened fire at a car she and her children were in on Cleveland’s west side.

Her 5-year-old daughter, Jermani, was killed. Brooks was shot in the eye.

“I lost my daughter, and my vision in my right eye,” Brooks told Fox 8 Monday. “I felt like I didn’t have a purpose. I felt like I had no control over anything.”

But through counseling and prayer, she found strength to write a book to honor her daughter. She wanted to make sure no one would ever forget her daughter - a bubbly, happy, five-year-old, who loved everything that sparkled, including her silver shoes.

So with the help of her two young sons, she wrote the book Sparkle to remember Jermani’s life.